We hope you had a blessed and happy Easter 2025.
Whether you were able to celebrate with us and you'd simply like to reflect on your experience, or you weren't able to tune in at the time, we've included resources from Easter services and our retreat conferences in this special Jubilee Year.
Triduum Retreat Conferences
This year's talks from the monastic community carried the theme of 'Christ: Transmitter of Hope', welcoming all to join us as a fellow 'Pilgrim of Hope' as the church celebrates it's 2025 Jubilee.
‘Introduction: A Liturgy of Hope’ by Fr Oswald
In one of the great Easter Prefaces, we address Christ as “the Priest, the Altar and the Lamb of sacrifice”. In a very real sense, that is precisely what we celebrate at each Triduum. In this first talk, Fr Oswald will seek to explore these themes in the Triduum liturgies, so that walking with Jesus through these holy days we may truly become Pilgrims of Hope.
A further resource document is available in the downloads section at the bottom of this page.
‘Why Should We Hope’ by Fr Gabriel
How can the brutal and lonely death of Jesus on the cross, which we commemorate on Good Friday, give us hope? In this talk I will look at the answer that St Paul gives to this question in his letter to the Romans, chapter 5 verses 1-11, seeing how the points he makes are also reflected in St Luke’s account of the Passion of the Lord, notably in Luke 23 verses 32-49.
A further resource document is available in the downloads section at the bottom of this page.
‘Suffering: A doorway to Hope’ by Fr Bede
“There is headroom in the cave of Bethlehem for all who know how to stoop”. The beginning of the pilgrim journey began with the ‘no vacancies’ sign on the door of the inn and progressed through a series of doorways of Hope towards the soon-to-be-discovered stone, rolled away from the cave of the tomb. We speculate on the code words enabling Mary Magdalen and her companions to gain entry, whilst authorisation for Peter and the ten is delayed.
A further resource document is available in the downloads section at the bottom of this page.
Supplementary Talks
During this year's Easter Retreat, a supplementary talk was given by guest speaker Philippa Armstrong on the theme of 'Bringing Hope to the terminally ill'.
If you'd like to reflect on the content of her talk, you can download the powerpoint slides below.
Homilies
Abbot Robert's Homilies across the Easter Triduum are available to watch on playback on our YouTube channel or if you prefer to read, you can download the texts below.
